Model Danielle Lloyd has revealed she broke down in tears when doctors told her she was expecting a fifth boy.
The ex-model, 38, was given the gender news last year after she took a blood test six weeks into her pregnancy
Speaking about her reaction to the test she admitted to The Sun: “I cried. I was devastated and didn’t know what to do with myself.
“We’d said this baby would be our last, so I was thinking, ‘It isn’t going to be my last — we’re going to have to have gender selection after all.'”
The former Miss England is already mum to Archie, 11, Harry, ten, and George, eight, who she shares with Jamie O’Hara – and four-year-old Ronnie with Michael O’Neill.
(Image: Instagram/ @missdlloyd)
Danielle also admits she was so desperate for a little girl she booked in for gender selection treatment in Dubai, bit were forced to abandon their plans due to Covid travel restrictions.
After facing backlash for wanting to undergo a gender assignment procedure, Danielle says: “I’ve had a lot of abuse from people saying, ‘I can’t believe you’re so ungrateful’.
“But me wanting a girl doesn’t mean I’m ungrateful for what I have or that I love my boys any less. So many people have messaged me to say they’ve got all the same sex and are desperate for one of the other, but are too scared to admit it.”
(Image: Instagram/ @missdlloyd)
She added that the same expectation isn’t on men – as “it’s OK for [men] to say [they] want a son” – but the same doesn’t apply to women.
After their plans stalled, the couple decided to try for a girl naturally and much to their delight little Autumn Rose was born in November.
Danielle explains the couple used the babydust method, which is said to let a couple effectively decide the baby’s gender by scheduling sex around ovulation.
(Image: Instagram/ @missdlloyd)
The Scouser said she hoped the early test indicating a boy would be wrong and when she got the news she was expecting a girl, she “cried all the way home”.
Danielle also insisted her desire for a girl was never about wanting to dress her up in pink dresses and makeup.
She says: “As a woman, I’ve got so much experience I want to pass on to Autumn as she grows up.
“I’m so close to my mum and I really wanted that mother-and-daughter bond. Obviously I love all my kids the same but it’s a different relationship with boys. When you have a daughter, she’s your best friend for life.”
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